COVID: Masks now optional for travelers in many places, but not all
Travelers faced mask confusion Tuesday, discovering they could shed their KN95s and show off their smiles at Bay Area airports and aboard major airlines but not on local buses and commuter trains as transit agencies sorted through the fallout of Monday’s federal court ruling voiding the requirement nationwide.
But just hours later, the Biden administration announced that if the CDC decides masks are still necessary, it would appeal aby a federal court judge in Tampa, Florida, that upended the federal mask-wearing requirement for planes, trains, buses, boats, airports, stations, marinas and taxis. When that would occur wasn’t clear Tuesday.
Major airlines, airports and other providers, including Uber, followed soon after with announcements that they too would jettison the mask rule in place since February 2021, though several noted that masks remain strongly encouraged by health officials. At the ticket counter, 83-year-old retired professor Dick Duane said he thinks it’s smart to keep mask mandates, because COVID isn’t going away. “Masks cost nothing.The people who spent their lives studying disease aren’t fools. The Lone Ranger had a mask.”
SAN FRANCISCO, CA Ð APRIL 19: A mixture of masked and unmasked passengers wait in line to check in for a Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt, Germany at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, Calif. on April 19, 2022. Face masks are no longer required at airports or flights in the United States after a federal court judge in Florida struck down the mandate on Monday.
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